Quotes by Joshua Redman

Charlie brought out the love in my father's playing: a warmth, tenderness and honesty that few others brought out to the same degree.

Spoken at bassist Charlie Haden's memorial, on what Haden drew out of his father Dewey Redman's playing.

He had such a deep, warm, tenor-saxophone sound-it was really a voice for him. He'd start playing a solo, and it made what I was playing sound like video-game music.

On playing alongside his father Dewey Redman and realizing his own technique meant nothing next to Dewey's sound.

Harvard Magazine

Saxophonist Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor

2013-08-16

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It was one of the most inspiring and intimidating things, to play with my dad.

Recalling what it felt like to share the bandstand with his father, Dewey Redman.

Harvard Magazine

Saxophonist Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor

2013-08-16

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I realized almost immediately that this band wouldn't stay together for very long. They were without a doubt, for our generation, among the most accomplished and innovative on their respective instruments.

On the 2020 reunion of his 1994 quartet, describing why the original band with Mehldau, McBride and Blade could not last.

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And my father is one of the most soulful musicians ever. I mean, he taught me about soul, and I hope, you know, someday to have 100th of the soul and wisdom in my sound that he has in his.

Talking about "GJ," the solo piece his father recorded for his grandson during the Back East sessions.